The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-08-06
Bill Nye's Correspondence.
He Invites Michigan Man to Come Dow
to North Carolina.
From the " Y Wor1d


Here is~a copy of genuine letter
which reached me the other day:
HOWARD CITY, Mich, Jan. II, 1887.
BILL NYE, EsQ.-Dear Sri, read
ing your letter in the Paper was much
pleased with the description of the coun-
try you give in your letter So 1, thought
l. would write you. few. lines. for.
information as. l, am. living hear in
the Snow banks and would like To. get
out of this country where there is no
snow to keep me bound in during the
winter monts, 1. am. a. Poor Man but
honest and have lived hear the past twen-
ty years. I, have wife and Child, and
l, have made up My mind to leave this
country by next fall and thinking per-
haps that you would be good enough to
give me the full particulars what the
Chances would be for a Poor man to
get a living in the country where you
now Remain. I. am good with the AK
the Saw the pillow or the hoe. l. love.
to. fish. and. hunt, am a. good. wing.
shot. please state what kind of game
there. is. and. the. brooks I. suppose
are full of trout I, suppose, they mint
be in good demand in the Markets in
the Season. hoping you will give me
your opinion the best of your knowledge
What my chances would be. in. a.
place. like. Asheville hopeing to hear
from you
l, Remain Yours Truley -
The above letter is a sample only of
profuse, one-sided correspondence
that has sprung up on the heels of a
brief article relative to the climate OF
Asheville, N. c., which appeared early
in the Winter in the W0rlH. Had l
dreamed that the article referred to
would bring such torrent of fractured
English and such a simeon of interro.
CATION points, I would have restrained
myself.
All can do, therefore, is to retract
and apologize. I want to be placed
once more where I was before I began
to get letters inquiring about the eli
mate. 1 am the victim of too much
notoriety. People write to me from all
quarters of the Union to ask things of
which 1 am grossly ignorant. I have
been compelled, as result of that in
cautious letter in the W0rl0, to take off
two of my autograph men and put them
on this climate correspondence. So l
state through the same columns where
the original letter appeared that apol-
ogize.
To the correspondent who writes the
above letter let me say: Come to
North Carolina and you will never re-
greet it. 1t is land flowing with milk,
honey and tar. 1t is full of health,
climate and smoking-tobacco. 1t will
do you good to come here and live till
you actually get tired of it.
1t is so extremely conducive to health
here that people grow to an enormous
height. Even the preachers grow to be
over feet high here. A clergyman
called on me the other day, and asked
me to address the Sabbath School, who
is 6 feet 4hinches high. He is man
who could ask blessing in humble
way if he had time, or if he happened
to be in hurry he could reach over and
help himself.
am feet high myself and moder-
ately active for one of my age, but l
would no more rise in that mans con-
gregation and make the remark, gosh,
than I would select perdition as good
site for fire. cracker factory.
Relative to the chances for poor
man in this country, where now re-
main, that being my principal business,
l will say in a cursory way that poverty
is not regarded as violation of the
statues here in North Carolina. People
have lived here for years in the most
AFFECT poverty right under the nose of
the Grand Jury. So you need not stay